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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Nashville, TN

October 24, 2001Coffee County, Grundy County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Oct 24, 2001, 9:24 PM CDT for Coffee County, Grundy County, Tennessee. It was in force for 36 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Oct 24, 2001, 9:24 PM CDT (02:24 UTC)
Expired
Oct 24, 2001, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Coffee County, TN, Grundy County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Oct 24, 9:25 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 57 ETullahoma, TNTree fell on the rear of a house at 2315 Ovoca Road.
Oct 24, 9:28 PM CDTTornado F2Manchester, TNRoof and one wall to a factory was blown off at Manchester Industrial Park. There was structural damage to other buildings in the Joint Industrial Park. Also, several trees were down. One estimate for damage from the combination of straight line winds and t

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Oct 24, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 99 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2001-10-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 659 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2001-10-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 245 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
659 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1147 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
245 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
385 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.2
Supercell composite
5.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

727 
WFUS54 KOHX 250224
TORBNA
TNC031-061-250300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
924 PM CDT WED OCT 24 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN COFFEE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  GRUNDY COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT

* AT 923 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 18 MILES WEST OF GRUETLI-LAAGER...OR ABOUT 8 MILES EAST OF
  MANCHESTER...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  5 MILES NORTH OF GRUETLI-LAAGER BETWEEN 940 AND 950 PM CDT

HEAVY RAIN MAY MAKE THIS TORNADO INVISIBLE. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU
WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING, IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A
SAFE PLACE.

$$

LAT...LON 3553 8605 3535 8606 3532 8524 3556 8524

STEIGERWALDT

The office that day

Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 24, 7:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHickman, Perry50 min
Oct 24, 7:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Williamson49 min
Oct 24, 7:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLewis, Wayne62 min
Oct 24, 7:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXSumner38 min
Oct 24, 7:51 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXWilliamson39 min
Oct 24, 7:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLawrence, Maury53 min
Oct 24, 7:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWilson35 min
Oct 24, 8:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMacon, Smith, Trousdale44 min
Oct 24, 8:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXGiles36 min
Oct 24, 8:10 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXRutherford35 min
Oct 24, 8:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXClay, Jackson55 min
Oct 24, 8:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBedford, Marshall50 min
Oct 24, 8:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLincoln, Moore55 min
Oct 24, 8:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDeKalb, Overton, Putnam53 min
Oct 24, 8:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXPickett53 min
Oct 24, 8:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCannon, Rutherford34 min
Oct 24, 9:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCoffee, Warren50 min
Oct 24, 9:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXFranklin54 min
Oct 24, 9:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCumberland, Van Buren, White48 min
Oct 24, 9:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXFentress51 min
Oct 24, 10:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXFranklin28 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.